Cosinage

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cosinage \Cos"in*age\ (k?s"'n-?j), n. [See {Cousinage}.] (Law)
     (a) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood;
         consanguinity. --Burrill.
     (b) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when
         a stranger has entered, after the death of the
         grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral


         relation. --Blackstone.
         [1913 Webster]